He acknowledged that "over the years, the police department had apparently developed an ad hoc system of occasionally granting light-duty status to officers who had an illness but who could still do light duty".
Everywhere we take things for granted – lights come on, post arrives, there is a school for the kids.
Because the Park Service would not grant Lights of Liberty permission for a permanent installation, getting the show in place is an enormous nightly undertaking.
The Great North was granted a Light Railway Order on 8 September 1899 for a light railway from Fraserburgh to St Combs.
Martha E. Stark, the finance commissioner, said in a statement that the amnesty was granted "in light of the heroic effort that New Yorkers gave during the blackout of 2003".
At that point, I believed that the pardons would not be granted, in light of the uniform staff recommendation to the contrary, and that little more needed to be done on the matter.
He added that while an owner has a legal right to build to the property line, it is nevertheless possible for a property owner to grant a light and air easement to the owner of an adjacent property.
Granted, the Light version is not as cool as the original, but it's actually commercially available: pay $233,000 and one unit is yours.
Granted, a light gun isn't the same as the Wii remote, but it's the closest thing I get to being "down" with all that jazz.
Construction technology over the centuries has progressed from the provision of basic shelter and security to sophisticated city buildings capable of providing an indoor environment that is nowadays taken for granted: warmth, light and abundant energy, all in opposition to the natural climate.
Moving up from a Finsbury Park bedsit through a damp and cellar-like basement on the Isle of Dogs, Mahoney was eventually granted a light-filled housing association flat which he and his students transformed with characteristic flair: a vine on the balcony, flowering window-boxes and hand-laid parquet flooring.
